Spec URL: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/tex-prerex-bin.spec SRPM URL: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/tex-prerex-bin-6.5.1-2.fc18.src.rpm Description: Prerex is an interactive program for editing prerequisite-chart descriptions in the prerex format. The user does not normally have to be familiar with details of the format. The editor supports add, remove, cut-and-paste, and edit operations on diagram elements, and shifts of a list of specified elements, all the elements in a rectangular region, or the entire diagram. The edited diagram may be saved, re-processed, and viewed in a PDF viewer, without exiting the editor. For a graphical front-end and viewer for use with the prerex editor, install the vprerex package. Fedora Account System Username: jnovy
The link to the source seems to have changed. This seems to work with the new version: http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/prerex/doc/prerex-%version.tar.gz The buildroot seems odd. Do you still need it? IIRC, we had a different set of allowed buildroot tags such as %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release} and not _topdir.
Not sure we need this package any longer.
"any longer"? After six years of doing nothing, you're asking whether "we" need this package? Who exactly is "we"? The prerex editor is used with the prerex package that's distributed at CTAN. It's included in the prerex package in TeXLive but only as a tarball because it uses readline and they're not willing to include that library in TeXLive. Apart from that, the prerex editor is a straightforward C program. It's still maintained. I recently extended its capabilities as a result of a user report.
Don't have time getting involved in this, sorry. Please submit a new review request if you believe it makes sense.